Egg prices will be lowered… and henceforth carry the risk of Salmonella.

That’s solid advice:-)

That’s the thing: what is happening right now, is doing so at the behest of We The People - who shouldn’t be wanting it to happen, but nevertheless, they DO.

I heard that Nixon’s impeachment was similar. Before it happened people absolutely refused to believe it. Then when all the stuff came out, they were shocked, but they believed what the news media has said.

Since that time, the game has changed… people heard the facts about Trump, and refused to believe it or refused to care if they did. So long as the libs are sufficiently PWNed, it doesn’t matter what else happens: we will continue to shoot ourselves in (previously) vital organs, just for spite.

Exactly as the people funding conservative media sources seem to want to happen…

Not just Linux, but you obviously have to use the correct distro of it, which obviously is…

That said, X is legit an Alt-Right Nazi bar. Even as we here are an Alt-Left one. I suppose it simply comes with the territory.:-|

That is an interesting word - not “just” another word for collaborator but “Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous.” - thanks for sharing:-)

We may soon be past the point where protests will have much effect. But not yet - most of what I’m saying is more for the future, while for now protests are absolutely helping:-).

You are right of course, so what I say next is on top of rather than instead of that: those people could easily be said to include you and me. Like Bernie Sanders, who devoted his entire long life to fighting this… did he do “enough”? Is AOC doing “enough”, by “merely talking”? Obviously Luigi tried, but it didn’t work so was it “enough”?

It’s so easy to get caught up in what others should or should not have done. What agonizes me these last few days, keeping me up at night, is what I should be doing. Which is not so simple as simply “fight back”. If someone is both robbing a home and that house is also on fire, it is not enough to stop the one - you must also stop the other. So like, I’m no climate change researcher, but I can only imagine the hard choices they must face: “should I play along, and try to do something about the climate, or… just resign, or what?” People that do aid work, if they are somehow still there, should they continue to do aid work, bc it helps people who more desperately need it? What about people working inside the system - like tax season is coming up, should they quit or sabotage things so that people don’t receive their refunds or what?

Okay so none of this is truly “sleepwalking”, but it could look like that, from the outside? Someone making their own determination about whether they did “enough” is one thing - and ofc it’s never going to be enough - but I could easily see someone labeling what someone else as done as not being “enough”, and it’s a slippery slope from there to McCarthyism.

Maybe - probably - I’m not helping here, bc there legit are people who not only are “sleepwalking” but I have actual family members and friends who are outright cheering it on. And no amount of quibbling over whether something is enough is going to compare to actually rooting and even asking for it to happen.

So to me, “sleepwalking” seems both to not go nearly far enough, and also to potentially go too far (in practice if not in theory), and in general it just seems not all that helpful to me to understand things.

As compared to watching such material as e.g. https://youtu.be/uqsBx58GxYY. Which ironically could lead to a charge of sleepwalking itself, bc staring intently into something as it happens is merely another way to excuse oneself from actually doing anything at all about it.

Genuinely, what is the appropriate word for this?

In history, retrospectively I believe it was a “collaborator”. But that to me does not evoke a sense of currency or anticipation of what is to come, which would be more helpful to us now.

Likewise the article suggests “complicit”, but I have roughly the same problems with that.

Ultimately this smacks of “those who are not with me are against”, which itself is vaguely similar to “the ends justify the means”… which is both obviously true and yet obviously so very not at the same time, presumably the difference lying in the circumstances where each applies or not.

There are people who voted against this. Then there are people who voted for it, but not for what will come as a result. Does it matter, in the end?

Thus I can’t quite think of the right word, I guess bc the variations and nuances and subtleties paralyze me there in trying to come up with one. As I imagine is true for the nebulous “them” as well. Not that we should let that stop us, mind you: like Ukrainians fighting off the Russians, perhaps compassion is something that you offer when you can but not at the cost of doing what needs doing in the meantime.

And maybe that’s why the word I am looking for is so hard to find: perhaps it doesn’t exist at all, except in retrospect?

I thought we were all female now, by law? :-P

Or sheer incompetence, it’s so very hard to tell these days! 😳🙃🫠

This link will work:

No way - this needs way more pixels…

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to be removed. Like, I can still read the letters here and everything!?:-P

Today I learned that some people think that’s what it means. And here I meant it as in “Fuzzy Wuzzy Imma Wiggly”, but to each their own I suppose!?:-P

Fwiw, you are on Lemmy now: (virtually) nobody thinks that you support Trump:-D

And yet we’re here for it:-)

Except this time…

Naw, he’s mainly just pro-fighting. As a wise person once said: